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## ENGELS ON THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND

In this same article there is a quotation from **Engels** (apparently from the preface to the new edition of *The Condition of the Working Class in England*) (p. XXIII from *The Condition*, 2nd edition).

"So long as England's industrial monopoly lasted, the English working class shared, to a certain extent, in the advantages of this monopoly. These advantages were distributed very unequally among them: the privileged minority pocketed the lion's share, but even the broad masses occasionally got something out of it. And that is why, ever since Owenism died out, there has been no socialism in England. With the collapse of England's industrial monopoly the English working class will lose its privileged position. The day will come when they will all—not excluding the privileged and leading minority—find themselves on the same level as the workers of other countries. And that is why socialism will appear in England once again."

**Engels:**

Engels on the working class and England's monopoly

Engels on English socialism

* This phrase was translated by Lenin (Works, Vol. XIX, 308). —Ed.

## K. BÜRKLI.
"DEMOCRATIZATION OF OUR MILITARY SYSTEM"

NB already 1896

Karl Bürkli: "Demokratisierung unseres Heerwe­sens" [Democratization of Our Military System]. Zurich. 1897. (Lecture 15 Nov. 1896 at the social-democratic party conference in Winterthur).

Already at the very beginning (p. 5), [it states] that the bourgeoisie (of Switzerland) "has only managed to produce a debased edition of monarchical militarism; to ape the foreign [model], to introduce a neo-Prussian[ism] among us, is what it has constantly striven to do."

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